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| Peter Pan (Aladdin Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: J. M. Barrie
Creator: Susan Cooper
Publisher: Aladdin
Category: Book
List Price: $4.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 75215
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0689866917
EAN: 9780689866913
ASIN: 0689866917
Publication Date: November 11, 2003
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Product Description
The character of Peter Pan first came to life in the stories J. M. Barrie told to five brothers -- three of whom were named Peter, John, and Michael. Peter Pan is considered one of the greatest children's stories of all time and continues to charm readers one hundred years after its first appearance as a play in 1904.
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 Not for 4-8 year olds! October 22, 2008
Full of imagination, adventure and wit, but NOT for 4-8 year olds as listed here on Amazon. My intelligent 10 year old struggled through it and my 7 year old looked like a deer in headlights. This book is more appropriate for high school ages at best. Also, beware of Tink's potty mouth and the use of the word "orgy".
 www.freewebs.com/hlgstrider July 18, 2008
I am not sure if Peter Pan is well written. I am not sure if I could diagram the plot. I am sure I would never have written that story the way Barrie wrote it . . . which is why only Barrie could write Peter Pan. Only Barrie could break literary rules and plot conventions so well to create something so timeless.
Peter Pan is in no way real, but the fantasy of it is in some ways everyone's fantasy. Barries seems to have been every child. He understands them, heartless, beautiful creatures that they are. He knows that Neverland is not always very good and it can be very frightening. It is that place right before we fall asleep that mothers try to soften with night lights, but that can be all too harsh when we are left alone with Captain James Cook, the scurvy dog who is never more sinister than when he is polite.
Barrie is the guardian of children's dreams. His work should never be forgotten.
 sad, beautiful story August 27, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is all about imagination. I agree that it's really for adults, although not bad for kids. That's because kids are still there, in Neverland, and can't get the point! An important theme in the story itself is just that: the generation gap. This story has layers of symbolism, and nothing is there for its own sake. The most charming, lovely, bittersweet story ever!
I am youth, I am joy! July 17, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Peter Pan is classic tale of youth and the joy it brings. It is also the tale of the dangers of being too grown up and living life far too seriously.
The Peter Pan you are used to from The Disney Company is not what you find in this classic From J.M. Barrie. I was surprised to find a lot of death and killing in this book, but I suppose Disney had to filter that to younger viewers. I really enjoyed this book and took up reading it because my son was on a Peter Pan kick and I wanted to know as much as I could about him.
Basically, Peter was a boy just like any other but he gave up growing up and decided to remain youthful forever. He is quite conceited and at times down right hateful and selfish, but then again what young person doesn't act this way. At first, I found I disliked Peter and the way he acted. He was too carefree and was only focused on himself, but then I realized that was who and what he represented. Life is a singular event and can only be lived moment by moment. We forget that when we become "grown up" and this book helps us to remember far better and less worrisome days.
Peter Pan is a delightful read and the characters are classics never forgotten. Peter, Captain Hook, Wendy, Mr. Smee, John, Michael, the Lost Boys, and the infamous Alligator live in between these sentences and will forever haunt your soul far after the last page and sentence are absorbed. Read this book and feel young again.
The book and the movie December 7, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this book, but I have to admit that I watched the newest 'Peter Pan' movie, starring Jeremy Sumpter, before I actually read the classic. Although the movie including many exact or related lines right from the novel and most of the same major scenes, I found that, in the movie, there was that 'puppy-love glow' between Peter and Wendy that just made the storyline so much more interesting and sweet. The novel does show some sense of that, but not as much as the movie. The whole idea that Peter tries to hide his feelings for Wendy yet act completely irrisistable at the same time...or at the end when Peter and Hook are fighting and Hook makes him realize that he is incomplete and so on. How the movie focuses on 'feelings' in the individual stages of childhood, youth, and adulthood are most interesting and are well demonstrating in the movie. Now, I love this book very much, but I suppose I was a little disappointed when it did not include such things.
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